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Cemal Burak Tansel

Cemal Burak Tansel

Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in International Political Economy & Politics of Global Development

I am Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in International Political Economy & Politics of Global Development in the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology at Newcastle University.

My research is concerned with how states and social forces produce, manage and contest ‘development’ projects in the Middle East and North Africa. At Newcastle University, I am the Director of the Postgraduate Taught Programmes in Politics, and teach undergraduate and postgraduate modules on International Political Economy and the political economy of development.

I am the co-founder of Political Economy Beyond Boundaries, and served as the President of the European International Studies Association from 2021 to 2023.

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